Autumn Has Definitely Arrived

Splendid, gloriously resplendent has been the entrance of this beautiful season.  Although our Creator cannot really "outdo" Himself, He certainly exceeds my expectation in HIs artistic display of colors in nature.  Springtime is invigorating and the sunrises seem to be just a tiny glimpse of heaven's majesty, but autumn stirs something in me that I just cannot explain.  It hasn't always been that way.  Since I began standing in the gap on behalf of the land, so much of my perspective has changed.  Some might say it's just age, and I will admit, a great deal changed when I was 54, but that was sudden.  What I'm talking about is a continual learning and embracing the simplicity of our Creator's plan for humanity.

 Nature is real and it's organized.  Nature is timely.  Even storms never last as long as the stress we manufacture in our lives or the drama we allow to invade or entertain us.  When I was an urbanite or suburbanite, daylight saving time changes were "real."  If I didn't change my clock the proper direction, or change it at all, I was late or early, but clearly out of sync.  Here at the homestead, the daylight saving time change doesn't change much of anything.

The temperature didn't drop ten degrees @ 2am.  It's still dark while I'm typing this, and the roosters are not yet crowing.  The goats are not making a sound . . . My point is, it is humanity that takes the order out of life with our organizational ideas.  There is only one thing in my life that will actually change due to the time change and that is the publishing of the Goshen Gazette.  Since evening chores will be based upon sunset, rather than the clock, I will probably find myself publishing after chores, even though it will be "earlier."

When I first began heading back to the basics, I joked that the animals didn't change their clocks.  I didn't realize how much deeper meaning that quip held.  Scripture tells us the it is the sun and moon placed precisely to show the days, times and seasons.  The prophet Daniel also said there was coming one to change laws and times . . .  The animals have the sense to function daylight to dark.  Humans, it seems, not so much . . .

Meanwhile here in Goshen, the colors are magnificent and the time of their beauty is limited.  For the most part, I don't need to know what time it is to enjoy this season.  I believe that has been the most valuable knowledge I have gained since I came to the homestead.  Before walking with YHWH, I missed so much being "busy" with my hectic schedule and truthfully, I can't tell you what I have to show for it.  Since serving YHWH, there is "time" to see the things I was too busy to notice before and the things that now occupy my "time" transcend the clock.